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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
stores, including cooperage and cartage. When goods are not 
removed after the expiration of ten days then the charge for storage 
is 5 cents per month or fraction thereof per barrel, and other pack 
ages, according to size, from 12 to 24 cents; for very small packages 
from 1 cent upward. 
At private bonded warehouses the limit allowed by the Government 
for goods of all kinds to remain in receiving bond is fourteen days; 
compulsory removal then takes place to the Government warehouse, 
except in case of goods in transit. 
The principal classes of goods stored in the bonded receiving stores 
are barrels and bags of flour, beef, pork, cotton-seed oil, kerosene oil 
in cases, casks of lard oil, provisions of various kinds, bags of rice, 
dholl, ghee, mustard oil, and general merchandise from various coun 
tries. Merchandise is removed direct from steamers moored to quays 
attached to bonded stores free of cost to patrons. The cost of such 
transportation is unobtainable. 
Customs officers watch all goods landed from steamers and see that 
they are deposited in the bonded warehouses where the steamers dis 
charge. Other customs officers in charge of warehouses check deliv 
ery along with agents’ clerks. These receiving warehouses are under 
the entire control of the customs department and under customs lock 
at the end of each day, and access can not be had except in the pres 
ence of a customs officer. 
The average annual receipts of the colonial bonded warehouse are 
$10,048; expenditures for labor, $1,634. Such information regarding 
service of private warehouses is unobtainable. 
There are no American merchants doing business in this colony, 
but goods from the United States are stored in large quantities 
for local consumption, for export under bond, and for transshipment. 
The majority of the receiving bonds are used largely for storing 
American products. All nationalities are treated alike in the admin 
istration of warehouses. 
Geo. H. Moulton, Consul. 
Georgetown, British Guiana, July 18, 190J^. 
ECUADOR. 
(From United States Consul-General Dietrich, Guayaquil, Ecuador.) 
In this country merchandise in transit or in bond can only be 
stored in the various custom-houses of the Government. There are 
no warehouses where such can be stored for a rental. 
All goods imported into this port are loaded from the steamers 
into large launches, and these are unloaded at the Government 
wharf and then carried by a small narrow-gauge railway to the 
custom-house, a corrugated-iron building occupying about two 
blocks and distant about one-half mile from the wharf. Wharfage 
charged on general merchandise is 6 per cent of the value of the 
duty paid by such merchandise, and $1 per ton, weight or measure 
ment, for handling from wharf to custom-house and delivery to the 
merchants. 
All goods, except those that are of a perishable nature, must be